Question bank xIMC 2009

$a,b,c$ are consecutive odd integers in increasing order. Find $a^2-2b^2+c^2$.

A machine replaces a positive integer $n$ with $n(n+1)/2$. Starting with five, apply the machine twice. What is the final output?

Children $A,B,C$ collect mangoes. Together $A,B$ collect six fewer than $C$; $B,C$ collect sixteen more than $A$; $C,A$ collect eight more than $B$. Find the product of their individual counts.

In the shown semicircle with centre $O$, a light ray leaves $M$ perpendicular to diameter $PA$. It reflects at $C$ with $\angle MCO=\angle OCB$, and again similarly at $B$, then hits $A$. Find $\angle COM$ in degrees.

Nineteen children, aged one to nineteen respectively, stand in a circle. Record the positive age difference of every adjacent pair. What is the maximum sum of the nineteen differences?

Simplify to lowest terms $$\frac{(2^4+2^2+1)(4^4+4^2+1)\cdots(10^4+10^2+1)}{(3^4+3^2+1)(5^4+5^2+1)\cdots(11^4+11^2+1)}.$$

Quadrilateral $ABCD$ is not cyclic. Points $E,F,G,H$ are circumcentres of $ABD,ADC,BCD,ABC$, respectively. Lines $EG,FH$ meet at $I$, with $AI=4$, $BI=3$ cm. Find $CI$ in cm.

A test requires sixty-five out of one hundred to pass. The class average is sixty-six; passing students average seventy-one, failing students fifty-six. Add five to each score. The new passing average is seventy-five and failing average fifty-nine. If the class has between fifteen and thirty students, how many are there?

How many different integer-sided right triangles have $2009^{12}$ cm as one leg? Interchanging the two legs does not make a new triangle.

Find the smallest six-digit integer whose digit sum and the digit sum of its successor are both divisible by twenty-six.

A circle has $2009$ blue points and one red point. Jordan counts convex polygons using only blue vertices. Kiril counts those including the red vertex. What is the difference between their counts?

Musa starts with three hundred fifty bottles: water sells at four rands, cold drink at seven. Not all bottles sell; revenue is $2009$ rands. What is the minimum cold-drink count sold?

Ten chess players each play every other exactly once. So far, among any three players at least two have not yet played each other. What is the maximum number of games already played?

$P$ lies inside $ABC$, with $\angle PBC=30^\circ$, $\angle PBA=8^\circ$, and $\angle PAB=\angle PAC=22^\circ$. Find $\angle APC$ in degrees.

Find the smallest positive integer expressible as the sum of four positive squares, allowing repeats, and dividing $2^n+15$ for some positive integer $n$.

Cards one to fifteen form a deck. Repeatedly put the top card on the table pile, then move the next top card to the bottom of the remaining deck. Continue until all cards are on the table. That pile reads one to fifteen from top to bottom. What was the fourth card from the bottom of the original deck?

Find the smallest positive integer having ten divisors ending in all ten different decimal digits. It may have more than ten divisors.

Complete the shown $6\times6$ table so each digit one through six appears in every row, column and both main diagonals.

The town map shows three parking areas P and seven shaded squares. One-way arrows apply up to the first side street. Find a route starting at one parking area, visiting all seven squares and ending at a different parking area, without visiting any point twice, including intersections.

Draw a closed horizontal-and-vertical path through every cell of the board exactly once without crossing itself. Between consecutive circles of the same colour, it must use one straight segment; between different colours, exactly two straight segments meeting at a right angle.